Security Updates Released for X.Org Server

Security updates have been released to address a vulnerability in X.Org Server.

Threat ID:: CC-2761
Category:
Threat Severity:: Low
Threat Vector:
Published:: 1 November 2018 12:00 AM

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Summary

Security updates have been released to address a vulnerability in X.Org Server.

Threat details

X.Org Server is the most popular display server bundled in Linux and BSD distributions, and may be installed with Cygwin on Windows. It was also included in Mac OS X versions 10.5 and 10.6, both of which are now unsupported.

For more information:

CVE-2018-14665

Remediation steps

Type	Step
	Users and administrators are encouraged to review the X.Org security advisory and update any installations of X.Org Server to the latest version. The updates will usually be obtained using the system's default package manager.

CVE Vulnerabilities

Status

CVE-2018-14665

Last edited: 17 February 2020 12:54 pm